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Fairings for CB400F?

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Laverda Dave:
Lovely looking bike back in the day. Definitely a Rickman fairing with Honda branding applied. They really were barn doors, effective but big and heavy. When I took mine off it was a huge weight, no wonder it produced a tank slapper!
Did you add extra rivets to the seat?

XS850:
Those were fitted to the Courier Company’s CB400’s which I rode in 78, my impression then was the bike was “gutless” and (very) interesting to ride around London - they moved onto the 400 “Dream” with similar fairing which felt a lot better on distance riding! Couldn’t understand then why everyone was raving about the 400/4 but (just) maybe it was due to the fairing and me being used to a bigger bike (Yamaha XS750) with more “grunt” - I’m looking forward to being pleasantly surprised once I’ve got my 400/4 finished (another year yet)!
Bruce

Aye Gee 1977:
I only had one memorable tank slapper in over 60,000 miles and I can't remember whether the fairing was fitted at that time or not.

I padded out the seat over the standard cover and topped the lot with a vinyl cover, fixed with stainless steel screws into the seat pan
  When the extra cover was removed, the screws (not rivets) were replaced.

There is a Peter Furlong full chaincase fitted too, for those that like period extras.

Don't expect too much of the performance - but I am not disappointed.  It always needed its neck wringing to make good progress.

Mikep328:
I can't imagine that huge fairing on a CB400F.  I had a friend with one on his CB750 and I thought IT was gutless!  :) 

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